Havana, Cuba: The majority presence of women in the candidacies for the X Legislature of the National Assembly of Popular Power (ANPP, Parliament), expresses their performance today in all spheres of Cuban social and economic life.
If the proposed candidacy is approved in the elections on March 26, this nation will maintain a milestone reached in 2018, since it will again have the second Parliament with the most women in the world: 55.3 percent of deputies out of the total of 470 legislators. .
The leading role of women is also evident in the scientific and technological activities of the country, in which more than 50 percent of its members are of that sex, as well as in the labor force, hence their parliamentary candidacies include representatives from sectors various.
The participation of women due to their merits and capacities in the island’s Parliament has been increasing: in the VII Legislature, which was in session from 2008 to 2013, they constituted 43.32 percent of the total number of its members, while in the VIII Legislature (2013 to 2018), that figure reached 48.86 percent.
In the IX Legislature, which will cease its functions in 2023, a 53.4 percent female representation was reached.
These figures are results of the existing policies to guarantee the development of women, expressed in the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, and the promotion of initiatives to eliminate gender gaps.
The advances experienced in this matter in the last decades are considered one of the most successful social phenomena that occurred in the Cuban Revolution.
